People in the News: Busta Rhymes busted

Published
10:00 pm PDT, Sunday, August 20, 2006

Rapper Busta Rhymes was arraigned Sunday on an assault charge after he was reportedly accused of attacking a man for spitting on his car.

The New York Police Department said the incident occurred Aug. 12. Rhymes was arraigned on a charge of third-degree assault and released on his own recognizance, said a spokeswoman for the district attorney's office. He is due in court Oct. 24.

Police have wanted to interview Rhymes since the February shooting death of one of his bodyguards, who was killed outside a Brooklyn studio where Rhymes was recording a music video.

The performer and another bodyguard were sued the following month by a fan who says the two men beat him after he asked for the rapper's autograph.

Reality television's Vincent "Don Vito" Margera, uncle of "Viva La Bam" star Bam Margera, was held without bond Saturday on a charge of sexual assault on a child.

Margera, 50, was arrested Friday night after a skateboarding event at a mall in Lakewood, Colo. He is accused of two incidents of sexual assault on a child, a city spokeswoman said. She said the charges involved inappropriate touching.

The MTV show "Viva La Bam" focuses largely on Bam Margera playing practical jokes on his parents and uncle.